Brandy the Chihuahua holds the record for being the smallest dog in the world in the 2006 Guinness book. She is 6 inches long and tips the scale at less than two pounds. Brandy's owner, Paulette Keller, takes her around in a sheepskin-lined purse and sometimes dresses her in a pink Hawaiian dress for fun.

A lawmaker has filed a bill for the 2007 legislative session that would allow legally blind persons to use laser sights, or lighted pointing instruments for hunting live animals. "This opens up the fun of hunting to additional people, and I think that's great," said the bill's sponsor, Republican Rep. Edmund Kuempel.

For those that worry they might eat their Christmas dinner alone this year, they now have reason to fear no more. Courtesy of a Dutch art company, a new DVD will allow a lonesome dinner to become one full of holiday fun and good cheer with dinner companions eating, drinking, and engaging in conversation. The DVD will feature actors reading out different scripts in other for people to pick out which type of people they would want best.

Police in the Austin suburb of Round Rock spent three hours looking for the caller who had made 49 emergency calls from an unregistered, deactivated cell phone. The search ended up in an elementary school where they found that a seven-year-old boy was calling from his classroom just for kicks. The investigators started the search for the caller with two clues - background giggles heard by the dispatchers and the two-mile-wide calling zone they traced the calls to. The crank-caller tied up the emergency lines for three hours.

A New York-based beauty company has introduced a new range of dyes for pubic hair. And Betty Beauty says sales have been brisk since the product line was introduced. The company, which markets the products as "color for the hair down there," has appeared on television and in magazines such as Vogue to promote the hair dyes.